Elon Musk citáty

„Jedinou vecou, o ktorú má skutočne zmysel usilovať sa, je väčšie kolektívne osvietenie.“

„Keď je niečo veľmi dôležité, vždy to môžete urobiť, a to aj napriek tomu, že okolnosti vám veľmi neprajú.“

„„V SpaceX v podstate nemáme žiadne patenty. Naša hlavná konkurencia sa nachádza v Číne. Bolo by smiešne, ak by sme zverejnili patenty, pretože pre Číňanov by to bola „kniha s receptami.““

„Chcel by som raz zomrieť na Marse; len nie pri náraze.“

„SpaceX má 5 000 ľudí. Mám veľa pozornosti, ale v skutočnosti, oni robia tú ťažkú prácu.“

„Ľudia by mali mať možnosť cestovať na Mars a mali by tak vedieť učiniť ešte v tomto živote.“

„Skôr alebo neskôr musíme rozšíriť život za našu malú modrú bahnitú guľu - alebo zaniknúť.“

„Každý produkt, ku ktorému je potrebný návod, je k ničomu.“

„Aj keby bola zombie apokalypsa, stále by ste mohli cestovať pomocou systému Tesla Supercharging.“

„Veril som, že sa budem venovať inžinierstvu, písať knihy alebo nejakým iným spôsobom dávať svetu viac, ako si z neho beriem.“

„Snaha vytvoriť firmu je ako piecť tortu. Musíte mať všetky ingrediencie v tom správnom pomere.“

„„Veľké firmy sú postavené na skvelých produktoch“.“

„„Je pozoruhodné, ako veľa vecí môže explodovať. Mám šťastie, že mám všetky prsty.““

„Zlyhanie je jednou z možností. Pokiaľ nezlyhávate, nie ste dostatočne inovatívni.“

„Musíme zistiť, ako mať veci, ktoré milujeme a nezničiť pritom svet.“

„Myslím si, že Južná Afrika je vynikajúca krajina.“

„Som odporne proameričan. Je to miesto, kde sa dejú veľké veci.“

„Ak nič iné, sme odhodlaní zlyhať novým spôsobom.“

„... Mám v pláne odcestovať na Mars a urobiť z neho môj domov.“

„Máme lietadlá, vlaky, automobily a lode... Čo keby bol aj piaty režim?“

„Keďže našimi hlavnými konkurentmi (v rámci vesmírneho štartu) sú vlády jednotlivých štátov, vymáhateľnosť patentov je otázna.“

„Raketová technológia použitá na automobile otvára revolučné možnosti.“

„Každý človek vo vašej spoločnosti je vektorom. Váš pokrok je určený súčtom všetkých vektorov.“

„Pravdepodobnosť úmrtia pri prvej [ľudskej] misii je dosť vysoká.“

„Guardian sú najviac neznesiteľné noviny na našej planéte.“

„Mohol som to buď sledovať alebo byť toho súčasťou.“

„Odpoveď bola, že sme si mysleli, že sa to dá urobiť.“

„Myslím si, že máme povinnosť udržiavať svetlo vedomia, aby sme sa uistili, že bude pokračovať aj v budúcnosti.“

„Snažil som sa naučiť čo najviac z predchádzajúcich pokusov.“

“It would be an incredible adventure. And life needs to be more than just solving every day problems. You need to wake up and be excited about the future”

“I believe there’s some explanation for this universe, which you might call God.”

“I think it is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.”

“Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball--or go extinct.”

“I would like to die on Mars; just not on impact.”

“Which means we’re cheaper than the Chinese, cheaper than [the] Russians or anywhere else – and we’re doing it in the United States with American labour costs.”

“This is the chance to fulfill a dream.”

“I don’t get the little ship thing. You can’t show up at Mars in something the size of a rowboat. What if there are Martians? It would be so embarrassing.”

“Although I am new in the business, my team is not. I would say that, person for person, there has never been a better rocket company in existence, in history. I don’t think there has ever been a group this talented in one place, in one company, developing a rocket – ever.
If you have millions of dollars it changes your lifestyle, and anyone who says differently is talking ########. I don’t need to work, from a standard of living point of view, but I do, you know. I work every day and on weekends and I haven’t taken a vacation for years.”

“Guardian is the most insufferable newspaper on planet Earth.”

“I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.”

“Well, I have tried to learn as much as possible from prior attempts.”

“The answer was we thought it could be done.”

“The long term ultimate objective – the holy grail – is we would like to help make life multi-planetary.”

“I don’t have an issue with serving in the military per se, but serving in the South African army suppressing black people just didn’t seem like a really good way to spend time.”

“So even if a fire develops, it can't really attack the particularly vulnerable locations like the pneumatic system or the avionics or the engine bay. We want to be in the situation that even if a fire develops, the rocket just keeps going.”

“I’m nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible.”

“Rocket engineering is not like ditch digging. With ditch digging you can get 100 people and dig a ditch, and you will dig it a hundred times as faster if you get 100 people versus one. With rockets, you have to solve the problem of a particular level of difficulty; one person who can solve the problem is worth an infinite number of people who can’t.”

“We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.”

“Holy flying fuck, that thing took off!”

“History is written by the victors … except on Wikipedia haha.”

“Whoever thought owning the libs would be cheap never tried to acquire a social media company!”

“A good sign as to whether there is free speech is, "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like?"”

“I like to be involved in things that change the world. The Internet did, and space will probably be more responsible for changing the world than anything else. If humanity can expand beyond the Earth, obviously that's where the future is.”

“In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a… collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing.”

“Everything works in PowerPoint; but if you have the physical item or some demonstration software, that's much more convincing to people than a PowerPoint presentation or a business plan.”

“We're adding a triple sign-off for all work done on the launch pad, on flight components, and flight critical GSE. You have a technician, a responsible engineer, and then quality assurance will sign the final, record all information, and take photographs of all the work that was done, and then make sure that all information is put into our quality assurance database, which is reviewed prior to launch.”

“SpaceX's got 5,000 people. I get a lot of attention, but they are really doing the work.”

“Getting to Mars is too big an accomplishment for us to feel proud by just by swinging by. We are a nation of enterprise as well as exploration, and we're not about to go there without making something of it.”